What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started, covers the differences between a highly available and a resilient solution followed by an introduction to the new architecture of Exchange 2013.

Chapter 2, High Availability with the Client Access Server, explores how to make the CAS role highly available by covering its changes from previous versions, load balancing, and the autodiscover service.

Chapter 3, High Availability with the Mailbox Server, describes how to make the Mailbox server role highly available and lists its improvements and new features, such as automatic reseed, database availability groups, and public folders.

Chapter 4, Achieving Site Resilience, discusses site resilience for both the client access and Mailbox server roles, covering the new global namespace and database availability groups across multiple datacenters.

Chapter 5, Transport High Availability, discusses, the new transport pipeline in Exchange 2013 and the new and improved shadow redundancy and Safety Net features.

Chapter 6, High Availability of Unified Messaging, describes the architectural changes made to Unified Messaging and what is required to achieve high availability for this service.

Chapter 7, Backup and Recovery, explores Windows integrated backup and System Center Data Protection Manager, what needs to be backed up in an Exchange environment, whether database availability groups can fully replace backups, and disaster recovery.

Chapter 8, Monitoring Exchange, focuses on the new Managed Availability monitoring engine, what it brings into Exchange monitoring, and its impact for System Center Operations Manager.

Chapter 9, Underlying Infrastructure, explores key infrastructure components and systems that also need to be made highly available so that they do not affect Exchange's availability. These include, for example, Active Directory, Domain Name System, and virtualization.